Tom Swift And His Great Searchlight; Or, On the Border for Uncle Sam
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Do you notice that searchlight, andhow powerful it is?" "I do, Tom. I never knew you had one as big as that. " "Neither did I, and I haven't, really. That's one of my smallestones, but something seems to have happened to it to make it throwout a beam like that. I'm just going to look. Come on in the shop. " The two inventors, young and old, entered, and Tom quickly crossedto where the wires from the automatic dynamo, extended to thesearchlight outside the window of his room. He made a quickinsp...ection. "Look, father!" he cried. "The alternating current from theautomatic dynamo has become crossed with direct current from the bigstorage battery in a funny way. It must have been by accident, fornever in the world would I think of connecting up in that fashion. Iwould have said it would have made a short circuit at once. " "But it hasn't. On the contrary, it has given a current of peculiarstrength and intensity--a current that would seem to be madeespecially for searchlights. Dad, I'm on the edge of a bigdiscovery.
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